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Direct linkBasma Hajir; Mezna Qato – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This essay takes up Edward Said's insistence on truth, justice, and tracing continuities of colonial violence to reflect on the university in a time of genocide. We set the stage with an outline of the university complicities; conditions continuous with, and connected to, the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We establish the legal resonance of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Death, Universities, Justice
Naja Morell Hjortshøj – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2025
This article examines how the mandatory subjects of innovation and entrepreneurship are taught in Chinese universities and how they are taken up by learners. Innovation and entrepreneurship education are part of the policy to promote 'Quality Education' through more experiential learning aimed to foster independent, creative and well-rounded…
Descriptors: Universities, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods
Bjørn Stensaker; Jens Jungblut; Georgiana Mihut – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Numerous universities throughout the world have established top-level advisory boards -- informal bodies and councils that the institutional leadership may consult on issues perceived as important. Through a series of qualitative interviews with members of such entities as well as representatives of the institutions appointing them, the article…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Administration, Governance, Universities
Anita Louise Wheeldon; Stephen Jonathan Whitty; Bronte van der Hoorn – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
This study examines the historical role preparation experiences of professional staff and academics in a managerialised university field. Semi-structured interviews were used to identify the impact of these experiences on the individual's ability to 'play the game' of the managerialised university field. The Bourdieusian concepts of habitus, doxa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Personnel, College Faculty, Experience
Keri L. Carter; John L. Carter – Writing Center Journal, 2025
The position of writing center assistant director resides in the middle of the often blurry lines of hierarchy. While many writing centers advocate for team leadership, the fact remains that universities are steeped in bureaucratic tradition familiar to university leaders, students, and tutors. Assistant directors accomplish tasks that keep the…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Administrators, Power Structure
Kun Wang; Calvin King Lam Chung; Jiang Xu; Alan Chi Keung Cheung – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Emerging studies on university stratification have often attributed the developmental gaps between universities to the popularization of new public management in contexts where market mechanisms prevail in higher education governance. However, less attention has been paid to how state powers continue to mediate university stratification alongside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Power Structure, Administrative Organization
Kligyte, Giedre – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Collegiality is at the heart of the academy's collective endeavour. It is central to how we think about academic governance structures, academic cultures, as well as the norms guiding academic work. This paper examines the less-explored affective dimensions of collegiality, probing the relationship between the collegial affect and the power and…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Power Structure, Universities, Educational Practices
Mark Birtles – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
This study explores the production, dissemination, and reception of the discourse of educational excellence and internationalisation in Japan's Designated National University Corporation System. The study frames the policy initiative within the longstanding goals of the Japanese government and demonstrates how the work of Michel Foucault helps…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Power Structure, Global Approach
F. Melis Cin; Markus Roos Breines; Parvati Raghuram; Ashley Gunter – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
This paper explores the concept of homeplace, examining how it serves as a nexus for learning, reproductive labour, and internationalisation while problematising the gendered and depoliticised nature of international distance education. Drawing on 60 interviews with international distance students at a South African university, the research…
Descriptors: Feminism, Global Approach, Distance Education, Gender Issues
Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
Amanda Datnow; Enikö Zala-Mezö; Nora Turriago; Benjamin C. Kennedy – Journal of Educational Change, 2025
Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) offer a strategy for supporting educational change and bringing researchers and practitioners into meaningful engagement around pressing issues. Whereas traditional research models often position researchers in hierarchical relationships with those who take part in their projects, RPPs aim to shift power…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Power Structure, Educational Research, Educational Practices
Rubin, Jee; Bose, Lakshmi S. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
This paper examines the ways in which administrators, academics and students living under conditions of authoritarianism come to imagine the university's political possibilities and horizons. To this aim, we first consider how alternative imaginaries are constructed and contained at Bogaziçi University, where the parameters of political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Authoritarianism, Political Attitudes
Malin Benerdal; Anna-Karin Westman – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
Collaboration between universities and schools has been emphasised by both governments and within educational development research in the Nordic countries. However, educational research has tended to focus on the practitioners' perspectives and experiences, i.e., researchers and teachers. Our intention is to contribute to the field with research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Universities
Hunt, Brett Elizabeth Murphy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This IPA study examines how professional college writing tutors feel their role is understood and appreciated (or not). While writing tutoring is a hallmark service at many undergraduate institutions, there remains an incongruence between what tutors, professors, students, and administrators expect from the role. In order to bring more clarity to…
Descriptors: Tutors, Writing Instruction, Universities, Laboratories
Ramón A. Feenstra; Carlota Carretero García; Emma Gómez Nicolau – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2025
Several studies on research misconduct have already explored and discussed its potential occurrence in universities across different countries. However, little is known about this issue in Spain, a paradigmatic context due to its consolidated scientific evaluation system, which relies heavily on metrics. The present article attempts to fill this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
